What 2,216 support programmes look like from the inside.
Analyses of the dataset behind this site. Every figure in every post is computed from the records at build time, so none of it goes quietly out of date.
The hidden cost of a grant: co-funding
A grant covering 70% of a project is not free money for 70% of the project. It is a commitment to find the other 30% before you can take any of it.
11 August 2026Which countries pay support automatically, and which make you ask
Some support arrives without an application because the state already holds the facts that qualify you. We counted it by country, and the spread is wider than you would guess.
4 August 2026What grant and benefit applications actually ask you for
We normalised the document requirements across every programme that publishes one. Seven documents cover most of it — which is why gathering them once is the highest-leverage hour in the whole process.
28 July 2026Only 34% of government support programmes publish what they pay
We checked every record in the dataset for a published amount. The gap between "there is money" and "here is how much" is the single biggest obstacle to knowing what you are owed.
14 July 2026The €300,000 ceiling that disqualifies a grant in full
EU de minimis aid is capped per company per member state on a rolling three-year window. Go over it and the new award is not trimmed to fit — it falls outside the Regulation entirely.